Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f4da890e0e9e989…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 01:26:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: eb79131e30f20fce0319cae7d081046c SHA-1: 6af670b3de4f69e900fbf824f928c2166f14e2b8 SHA-256: 5f4da890e0e9e98968ca8a70df2605cbf9a455d870ae2cdfd39c8cca95e046d0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, with a primary link to a redirector at `ttraff.com` disguised with a "Mcgraw hill sat 2020 pdf" keyword. This suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning attack designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple PDF links points to a link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=mcgraw%20hill%20sat%202020%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.champaignsoilandwater.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776055/8674749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shamrockhavenpublishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378943/3906494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ragon.westsoundstem.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/webos_xunatan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oregoncouponing.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871744/a1ef66fb45ecd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8702/6581/files/45188285084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1086/7871/files/23625889222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9068/2783/files/18086859016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5229/2513/files/49514522819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5570/2425/files/46526674671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/87664315042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2229/files/samsung_galaxy_s8_manual_verizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5438/3782/files/34850305171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51108684678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7430/6727/files/catalogo_monedas_y_billetes_de_colombia_1616_a_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EA0 5244 bytes
SHA-256: b06580d257d8781c4f19143a39413590fec4e21e142e05ad497ee1c7a9b02fd2
font_01_sfnt_off00007097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7097 11392 bytes
SHA-256: dce8159b04f7e324e2fb3cca1160b5150e22452ba80c4f8ca8d7862cd509fe42
font_02_sfnt_off00009726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9726 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333

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